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jjohnson28 Offline
#1 Posted: Sun, Mar 9 2003, 7:41 PM EST
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Jim Johnson's Book: Growing and Processing Tobacco at Home A Guide for Gardeners.

http://www.seedman.com/Tobacco.htm

No of course it's not really "my" book but I thought someone might be interested.I've been surfing around hot pepper and veggie gardening sites and stumbled on to this one.Me,I'm not that far gone yet.Yet!...LOL

Enjoy,JJ
RICKAMAVEN Offline
#2 Posted: Sun, Mar 9 2003, 9:27 PM EST
Joined: 10-01-2000
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hemp is the ideal crop.

it can grow 20 feet in one season. it rejuvenates the soil as it grows and can produce up to 3 crops per year.

hemp was legal tender from the 1600's until about 1800.
from it you can make, paper, clothing, construction panekingm and clean burning fuel.



in 1937 popular mechanics called it "the new billion-dollar crop." and a hemp harvester was invented.

about the time nylon fabric was going to be introduced, the growing of hemp became the growing of marijuana and it was declared illegal and nylon clothes became the new fabric of choice. followed later by plaid polyester jackets and goofy looking suits.

all the medicinal uses that could be derived from hemp with little or no side effects, have been replaced by the drug companies, interesting pun, with expensive synthetic drugs that come with a two page list of thier side effects, and here in the us the price for the drugs is the highest on the planet.

in 1991 the us government made the growing of more then 30,00 plants a death penalty offense.
eleltea Offline
#3 Posted: Mon, Mar 10 2003, 2:10 AM EST
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Rick made all that stuff up. Next I suppose he will add that the father of our country grew it!
xibbumbero Offline
#4 Posted: Mon, Mar 10 2003, 7:16 AM EST
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My father(as a kid) and grandfather worked in the Imperial Valley working for the US Govt,growing Hemp for rope in WW1. He told they were always happy in their work. X
Robby Offline
#5 Posted: Mon, Mar 10 2003, 7:18 AM EST
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you guys are smoking Ropeman!
Homebrew Offline
#6 Posted: Mon, Mar 10 2003, 8:36 AM EST
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I bet they didn't inhale either.
:-)
Homebrew
plabonte Offline
#7 Posted: Mon, Mar 10 2003, 9:05 AM EST
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I read an interesting article in Maxim about illegal pot growers in the US. There were three southern states that it is huge in. Kentucky I think is one. Anyway, talked about how these southern towns are very poor because there are no jobs and that these marijuanna barrens employ whole towns. And a lot of US money is spent to find these crops and burn them. Interesting reading.
hoagie55 Offline
#8 Posted: Mon, Mar 10 2003, 9:46 AM EST
Joined: 03-01-2003
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Plabonte,

You are right. Kentucky was one of the largest hemp producing states in America before it was outlawed. The grounds here were so rich and fertifle that there are still wild hemp plants proping up all over. I remember when I was in high school, back in the 1980s, there was wild hemp growing under the suspension bridge. This is one of the major bridges that connects KY and OH. The bums living under the bridge were lovng life until some unsuspecting person stumbled upon the wild crop and city officials destroyed the plants.

My brother in a police officer in KY and was recruited to go undercover back in the stick of KY to spy on illegal pot growers back when he graduated from the academy. Luckily he came to his senses and turned down the assignment. There have been some lively gunfiel exchanges over these plants in KY.
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